Run Your Music Business: How to License Your Music, Negotiate Contracts, Pay Business Taxes & Work Full-time in Music
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Updated Edition for 2025
Written in easy-to-understand plain English by an experienced award-winning lawyer, Audrey K. Chisholm, whose clients’ music has been featured on Disney+®, Netflix®, Marvel® Movies, American Idol®, and more, “Run Your Music Business™” is the second book in the Music Law Series™
“Run Your Music Business™” picks up where “Start Your Music Business™” left off and is an easy to read guide for songwriters, producers, music publishers, independent record labels, artists, bands, musicians, and individuals in the music industry that want to legally protect their music business, understand how to make a full-time income making music, and strategically grow and properly manage their music business to avoid legal issues in the future.
In this book you will learn how to:
1. How to Get Paid Licensing Your Music
2. How to Set-up Your Own Publishing Company
3. How to Build Your Own Music Catalog
4. How to Register with a Performing Rights Society
5. How to Negotiate Contracts (Record Label Agreements, Producer Contracts, Songwriter Contracts, etc.)
6. How to Work Full Time in Music
7. How to Know if Your Business is Growing
8. How to Know if Your Business Is Profitable (Understanding Financial Statements)
9. How to Create a Budget for your Music Business
10. How to Manage Debt
11. 10 Ways to Improve Your Credit Score
12. How to Run Your Music Business
13. How to Hold Business Meetings
14. Developing a Strategic Plan for Your Business
15. Business Recordkeeping / How to Keep Proper Business Records
16. 10 Ways to Avoid I.R.S. Trouble
17. How to File Business Taxes
18. Building Your Team
19. And more!
This updated edition includes easy-to-understand examples and resources that can help you not only legally protect your music business but learn how to earn a full-time income making music.
Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date : September 22, 2014
Language : English
Print length : 166 pages
ISBN-10 : 1505464978
ISBN-13 : 978-1505464979
Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.38 x 9 inches
Book 2 of 2 : Music Law Series
Best Sellers Rank: #344,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #50 in Music Business (Books)
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